I just wanted to make a note here that I currently have very limited internet access right now so updates will be a little scarce. I do have scans and screencaps to add as soon as I get it back. In the meantime, vote for True Blood as Best Science Fiction Series and Best New Fall Show at TV.Com.
Shooting of film “Miss Irena’s Children” started in Riga
From The Baltic Course:
Yesterday the U.S. film studio “Hallmark Hall of Fame”, in cooperation with the film production company Gillham Road Productions Inc. started shooting the feature film “Miss Irena’s Children” in Riga, as LETA found out from the project’s spokeswoman in Latvia, Ingrida Nagle.
Riga Old Town with its cobblestone streets and courtyards was chosen in the competition of eight cities as the most appropriate one for shooting the film about the events, which took place during World War II.
It is the first time that a U.S. film studio shoots a film in Latvia. Academy Award winner Anna Paquin will play the lead role – Irena Sendler – the young Polish woman, who rescued the lives of thousands of Jewish children during WWII.
In 2007 Irena Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in May of this year, at the age of 98.
November 14th, 2008 | No Comments
Today’s Girl on Maxim.Com
From Today’s Girl:
Birthday: July 24, 1982
Hometown: Winnipeg, CanadaHow You Know Her: Plays mind reader Sookie Stackhouse in HBO´s vampire saga True Blood; known to fanboys as Rogue from the X-Men movies; is the second-youngest Oscar winner ever, and stores the award in her closet. Oscars, sexuality, decaying drifters… looks like we all keep our most prized possessions in the closet.
A Likely Excuse… “I´m not very political. I´m also not American and I don´t get to vote, so my feelings are not really relevant.” –TV.com
October 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Magazine Scans
Many thanks to Andrea for sending in scans from the October issue of SFX magazine and December issue of Sci-Fi magazine.
Also, I know I said in my last update that the screencaps for Cold Ground would be up in a few days, but unfortunately the hard drive they were on decided it no longer wanted to work. While I was able to restore some of the drive, I couldn’t get the screencaps due to space issues so I am going to have to recap the episode as soon as I get time.
October 26th, 2008 | No Comments
Gallery Update
I’ve just added scans from the October issues of Interview and Channel Guide to the gallery. The scans of Interview aren’t the greatest since it’s an oversized magazine, but I did my best with those.
I will have screencaps from Sparks Fly Out and Cold Ground added within the next few days. Also, I want to add that out of respect for Anna and any visitors underage, I will not be adding screencaps containing nudity to this site.
October 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Anna Paquin a lifesaver in “Sendler Story” for CBS
From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Oscar winner Anna Paquin will play a Holocaust heroine in “The Irena Sendler Story,” a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation for CBS.
Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jewish children during World War II, died in May at age 98.
The film goes into production next month in Latvia, for an April premiere. It is based on the book “Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story,” by Anna Mieszkowska.
Paquin co-stars on HBO’s vampire drama “True Blood,” which was recently picked up for a second season. She won an Oscar for her supporting role in “The Piano.”
October 14th, 2008 | 7 Comments
Please Read This About Anna’s Sister.
These are two articles about Anna’s sister, Katya and her fight with a brain tumour. As fans of Anna’s, let’s keep her sister in our thoughts.
From NBR:
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman’s partner Katya Paquin is to have further surgery to try and remove a brain tumour.
Dr Norman told NZPA that Ms Paquin visited Wellington Hospital on Thursday for pre-surgery preparation and would go back on October 17 for the operation.
“This is their third attempt to get the tumour, they’ve got parts of it before and they’re hoping this time they will finish it off,” Dr Norman said.
Asked how he coped with the stress, he answered: “I don’t know. I don’t know what the answer is.”
The tumour was diagnosed just a few months before the last election.
“It happened in April-May 2005, it was much more stressful because it was the first time and it was a haemorrhaging tumour back then and I was the campaign manager at that time.”
Ms Paquin is a Green Party researcher.
Dr Norman said the couple had good family support. Ms Paquin’s sister is the Oscar winning actress Anna Paquin.
From NZ Herald:
Katya Paquin, petite and wearing a Deborah Sweeney designer dress, and her partner Green Party co-leader Russel Norman are snuggled together in what could pass as a ramshackle student flat in an old Hataitai villa.
There’s a cheese board and Milton’s organic wine on offer amid the bohemian chic decor, a collection of mismatched and borrowed furniture dominated by a large home-made bookcase crammed with many books and CDs.
Here they have entertained Paquin’s famous sister Anna when she visits from Hollywood, where she has found fame after nabbing the part of Flora in the Jane Campion film The Piano in 1993.
Katya Paquin, now 29, went as 12-year-old to an open audition with a friend after the friend’s mother read an ad in the paper. Paquin and her friend were among a bunch of youngsters who turned up.
“We were not a theatre family at all. I’d never done any acting or anything like that.” Neither had younger sister Anna, but she tagged along for the experience.
“My sister came with us but we were too old for the part. I am three years older so that’s quite a big difference for that role, but it’s funny how things work out.”
Katya doesn’t remember Anna’s gasping Oscar acceptance speech: “I think I may have been at school. I think I got the news over the phone – it was really great.”
Now Paquin talks about the tumour growing in her brain with the same clarity and determination with which her partner talks about politics. “I am hoping to get through this,” she says.
Paquin’s had surgery on the tumour and faces more in the future. She’s had gruelling treatment and takes medication daily, but sidesteps questions about its severity.
“I don’t want to go into too much detail but, you know, I am hoping to get through this.”
There’s laughter and kisses and cuddles with Norman, 41. The room is filled with their love.
Diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago, Paquin has been “kind of dealing with it ever since”.
She downplays the gravity of her medical condition, using words such as “tricky health stuff” to describe all that she is going through.
“I mean a lot of people have difficulties that they have to deal with and we are trying to deal with it as best as we can.
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October 4th, 2008 | 4 Comments